Programme 1 research aims to develop and implement strategies to deal with sustainable agriculture and food security, taking on board the need to mitigate/adapt to climate change and to protect biodiversity.

The research addresses three primary objectives:

genetics for sustainablility

plant pathology for sustainable crop production

designing crops for sustainable production.

This large, multi-disciplinary and output-orientated programme is being delivered by plant, microbe and environmental scientists working together with mathematicians, statisticians, economists and social scientists from: